Search: Sustainable Living

See details below, and contact Lee Schipper (schipper@berkeley.edu) with
questions or interest.

Greenhouse gas emissions from transportation are a significant part of the
US GHG footprint. World Resources Institute's Climate and Energy team
consists of over 35 staff working to bring ideas into action to protect the
planet and stabilize the earth's atmosphere. The U.S. must begin managing
its emissions immediately if the world is to reach a global climate change
agreement in 2009. WRI, as a Washington-based think tank, builds
partnerships with academic institutions, civil society, businesses and
governments at all levels to create policy options and design for change.

WRI and UC Berkeley will work together to provide snapshots of the emissions
profiles of fuels and fuel policies. This quantitative analysis will be
depicted visually/graphically and will be written up in "policy brief"
format. The goal is track progress towards a reduced climate footprint from
fuels policies and technology. An analogy can be found in WRI's "A
Comparison of Legislative Climate Change Targets in the 110th Congress"
which charts emissions reductions from different cap and trade proposals (
http://www.wri.org/publication/usclimatetargets#).

The candidate should have an interest and understanding of a variety of
factors driving transportation emissions - he/she should be willing to
engage a variety of individual and institutional analytical approaches and
modeling assumptions. Familiarity with modeling approaches for fuel GHG
performance is important, and strong communications skills and ability to
work independently is essential.

WRI's climate and energy team seek to complement existing energy technology
and federal policy staff with a set of research and analytical tasks that
can help frame and bound a policy dialogue on approaches and trade-offs with
fuels policies in conjunction with UC Berkeley. WRI will also seek to
integrate lessons from this analysis with broader climate and transportation
issues addressing a variety of transport/climate links including
transportation funding and cap and trade design. This work will focus on
one part of the broader effort to engage in a more comprehensive approach to
transportation emissions - there is potential for follow-on work and
research.

In India, a wala is a person you go to for something: a bicycle repair wala, a chai wala. Greenwala.com will soon be the new destination to go to for green. An on-line community based in California but with a global reach, Greenwala will be a place to share ideas and learn about ways to make our homes and workplaces more sustainable. We are currently a start-up operating in stealth mode.

Are you interested in helping write sustainability content or moderating one of the seven channels for Greenwala: energy, transportation, organic food, green building, green technology, consumer products, or closed loop manufacturing?

If you:
• Believe that inspiring people with a positive vision is a powerful tool for realizing a sustainable world,
• Enjoy researching and writing, and
• Like having flexible hours and a flexible job location

then e-mail the following three items to Justine Burt at burtjustine@gmail.com by May 8th.
1. Resume
2. A cover letter including information about sustainability topics of interest to you and relevant work experience on these topics
3. A 200-300 word writing sample on the topic “The best way to travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles: environmental impact, time and cost”

When you e-mail your information, please type “Summer Internship” in the subject line.